Multidisciplinary Team at Jefferson Studying Human Genome with Grant from W.M. Keck Foundation Featured in Philadelphia Business Journal
A multidisciplinary research group, led by Isidore Rigoutsos, director of the Computational Medicine Center at Jefferson, was awarded a $1 million medical research grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study the human genome and the role it may play in the onset and progression of various diseases.
"[The funding] will help us get to the bottom of this story: an unexplored territory that we strongly suspect has something important to reveal about human disease," explained Rigoutsos in a Philadelphia Business Journal article. "There is disconnected evidence, and we want to assemble all the pieces."
Read the full "Thomas Jefferson University studying genome with Keck grant" article.
This release was also picked up by several health and science websites, including PhysOrg, First Science News and News Medical.
Publication: Philadelphia Business Journal
Published: 8/3/2011